A child covers his wounds after being injured by a Syrian army sniper. Activists in Syria claim the death toll from violence across the country reached 80 on 4 October, with the majority of casualties occurring in the northern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo

A Syrian woman returns home after waiting in a bread line in Aleppo. Areas where women, children and the elderly take refuge, including bread lines, hospitals and schools, are daily targets for Syrian army snipers and artillery shelling

Syrian children play on a slide in a refugee camp at the Syrian-Turkish border near Azaz. The makeshift camp, which houses several thousand refugees in poor sanitary conditions and is controlled by the Free Syrian Army, is reported to be growing daily

Smoke billows over shelled and destroyed buildings in Aleppo's Saif al-Dawla district on 2 October. The Syrian army has continued shelling in the city, and has brought in reinforcements to try to end the rebels' resistance